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The Matinee Idol

1928

The Matinee Idol

1928
6.3
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
So This Is Love

1928

So This Is Love

1928
5.5
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
The Garden of Eden

1928

The Garden of Eden

1928
5.6
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
The Circus

1928

The Circus

1928
7.9
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
That Certain Thing

1928

That Certain Thing

1928
6.5
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
Love

1927

Love

1927
5.6
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927
7.8
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Spring Fever

1927

Spring Fever

1927
6.9
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
College

1927

College

1927
6.7
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
Old San Francisco

1927

Old San Francisco

1927
5.3
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Wings

1927

Wings

1927
7.2
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
The Unknown

1927

The Unknown

1927
7.5
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Children of Divorce

1927

Children of Divorce

1927
5.7
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Mr. Wu

1927

Mr. Wu

1927
5.7
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
It

1927

It

1927
6.9
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it."
The Red Mill

1927

The Red Mill

1927
6.4
A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
The Show

1927

The Show

1927
6
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
Flesh and the Devil

1926

Flesh and the Devil

1926
7.1
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
The General

1926

The General

1926
7.9
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926
6.3
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.